Allan Holdsworth in 2012 [Photo by Chrisparks / CC BY 4.0] He had wanted to play the saxophone, but his grandfather could only afford to buy him a guitar. In an interview, ...

Though he never saw great commercial success in his lifetime, Allan Holdsworth's one-of-a-kind approach to the electric guitar earned him the admiration of some of the most decorated players of ...

Holdsworth was a radical inventor, not just in brewing methods and guitar systems, but with every aspect of music. When he was a teenager, while most budding guitarists were happy with a box position ...

Allan Holdsworth. Along with the crunch of “Back in Black,” some of Van Halen’s guitar twists on “Drop Dead Legs” were also inspired by the late Britsh jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth ...

HOLDSWORTH Alan On 14th November 2023 peacefully at home. Alan aged 94 years. Much loved husband of Doreen, dearly loved dad of Susan and Linda, a dear father-in-law of Jim, a loving grandad of ...

Then Barbara Met Alan is a one-off drama that explores the true story of how Lisicki and her partner Alan Holdsworth (played by Arthur Hughes) founded DAN, which stands for Disabled People's ...

Campaigners Barbra Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth struggled in the 1990s to achieve equality for the disabled in the UK. Photograph: Samuel Dore/BBC/Dragonfly Film & Television Productions Ltd .

Setting new standards for disability inclusion and authentic portrayal, the BBC’s new fact-based drama Then Barbara Met Alan is an account of Britain’s modern-day battle for civil rights and ...

“Let’s block the telethon,” whispers Barbara Lisicki (Ruth Madeley) to her fellow disability rights activist Alan Holdsworth (Arthur Hughes). The pair are the main characters in Then Barbara ...

The untold disability civil-rights love story of two cabaret performers, Barbara and Alan, who met at a gig, fell in love, and became the driving force behind an unprecedented campaign of direct ...

BBC Two's latest film, Then Barbara Met Alan, airs on Monday night and tells the true story of Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, a former couple who founded DAN, the Disabled Peoples Direct ...

THE BBC’s new drama Then Barbara Met Alan is based on real life protests. The film follows Barbara Lisicki and Alan Holdsworth, the founders of DAN (Disabled People’s Direct Action Netw… ...